If at any point in your life there was ever a reason to consider buying a VPN, I will open my arms and welcome you as a fellow “citizen” of Lithuania.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) seem to be reaching out to users found to have downloaded the PC playable build of Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Wolverine. The forthcoming “PS5 exclusive”, part of terabytes of data extracted from Insomniac Games’ servers.
A DMCA notice circulating on social media indicates that ISPs such as Comcast, likely acting on Sony’s behalf, are taking strict measures. The notice warns, “We remind you that the use of our service in any way that constitutes an infringement of copyrighted work is a violation of Comcast’s DMCA policy and may lead to the suspension or termination of your service and account.”
There doesn’t appear to be any specific punishment outlined, though recipients are advised to delete the problematic files, particularly the Marvel’s Wolverine executable.
In a statement released earlier today, Insomniac Games expressed that the entire week has been “incredibly distressing,” yet they remain “resilient” and committed to continuing the development of their game as originally planned.
Various Twitter users are trying to scare and implore others from downloading the data, for morally righteous reasons, such as the fear of malware being present inside the files, given that 1.67+ terabyte worth of Insomniac Games data was uploaded by the hacker group, Rhysida, the contents of which could very well be infected.
Not that we particular care though, if you’re one who urges against piracy amidst the fear of getting infected one out of a thousand times, you deserve to be used and abused by gutless corporations, such as Sony who are going to start demanding $80-100 per game or segment particular titles into multiple installments.
Belligerent ISPs know exactly what you’re doing at any given hour of the day, they know what you’re downloading and they know when you are torrenting. They rarely ever can do anything outside of send you passive-aggressive emails and letters suggesting that you kindly remove said content from your system or insist that you stop accessing certain websites outright, majority of which are probably already blocked.
You’re able to find large snippets of gameplay footage for Marvel’s Wolverine by simple searching the term on Twitter, or you can opt to downloading the contents yourself. Though do be warned it would be advisable to perhaps play the pre-alpha PC build of Wolverine on a virtual machine installation that does NOT have internet access.
Even when using a VPN, of which there are plenty out there for very affordable prices, Mullvad being a top choice in terms of actual privacy. Comcast and AT&T are some of the most major offenders in sending their customers threatening letters regarding “illegally” downloaded content on the internet, which is why a VPN is basically mandatory in this day and age.
The game doesn’t look particularly enticing or anything exciting, it looks and plays like more mundane third person, over the shoulder slop from Sony, combining mechanics from Marvel’s Spider-Man and God of War to produce a woke inclusive cinematic experience, the game also looks to have a crafting feature built-in including the usage of smoke bombs and interestingly, med kits.
Considering how Logan (Wolverine) basically has the innate ability to regenerate extremely quickly, the presence of “medkits” outside of using them to perhaps heal up NPCs during rescue makes absolutely no fucking sense outside of making the game easier to design around for the hacks at Insomniac Games.
